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    performance in 1912. The player piano market was lasted from 1900 until the Depression in the 1930’s and made the preservation of historical performance of Jazz and Ragtime. This is because player piano sounded much better than radio and the early phonographs during that era. People also enjoyed the musical talent of the best pianist of the day like Scott Joplin. The sale of player piano reach its peak by 1924. However, the Great Depression caused the player piano production ended effectively (Kimbrell

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    Edison’s only invention? Yes it is the most the popular and is still used today but Thomas Edison is also responsible for many inventions that have helped make advances in Mass Communications. These inventions include the kinetograph/kinetophone, phonograph and multiple models of the telegraph and telephone. Due to the success of these inventions Thomas Edison holds 1,093 U.S patents and has received a plethora of awards. (Inventors.about.com, n.d.) Thomas Edison’s inventions have made him pioneer

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    argument, explaining what is good and bad about today’s music industry. I am going to talk about evolution of recorded sound, what is the very first factor that contributed to the changes of industry and mention eventual changes that appeared. *** Phonograph Middle 1800’s… up in till then the only way to hear a song was to find

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    receiver. With this in mind he decided that this should be investigated further and developed into a product. (History of the Phonograph 1) Along with his engineers, he worked to develop a machine, that by using a needle and a piece of tin-foil wrapped around a cylinder, could record and playback human speech. His machine, called the phonograph, would indent marks on a cylinder and play them back a limited number of times. (National Park Service 1) The first message recorded with this message was Edison

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    tin foil, also known as the phonograph (voice – writer), which enabled sound to be played back (the first speech to be recorded and played back was the poem by Sarah Josepha Hale (1830) ‘Mary had a little lamb’, which, unfortunately “was not preserved, but in 1927, Edison re-enacted the recording for Fox Movietone news. It can be heard on the

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    motion of all kinds of animals. From that moment, Edison decided that he will create a camera, that could capture better quality images. He wanted to design, “an instrument that does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear." He started to do experiments, by taking multiple pictures of a cylinder and then reviewing it by using a microscope. Edison decided to work with W. K. L. Dickson. Dickson was a huge photographer, so he was providing Edison with great information on photographies and giving

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    recordings, called "phonautograms", made in 1857. Phonograph On April 30, 1877, inventor Charles Cros submitted a letter to the Academy of Sciences in Paris fully explaining his paleophone. Although no trace of a working paleophone was found, Cros is remembered as the earliest inventor of a sound recording and reproduction machine. Sound Recording The first practical sound recording and reproduction device was the mechanical phonograph cylinder. The inventor was Thomas Edison and the year 1877

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    eighteen eighty eight Thomas Edison, the wonderful inventor of the electric bulb and the phonograph decided to construct machines for producing and displaying moving photographs. With the assistance of W.L.K Dickson, Thomas began analyzing and altering the phonograph to make rows of small pictures on similar cylinders. Any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs is a phonograph. ( Dictionary.com) Mr. Edison travels to Paris in eighteen eighty nine to take a look at

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    Since its infancy during the nineteenth century, the art of sound recording has been profoundly affected in countless ways by inventors, scientists, and sound engineers. From the invention of the phonograph to the computers of today, they have all made contributions to the foundation of sound recording. Going forward, technologists in today 's computer age are becoming more and more creative. There has even been proof that some researchers have had a hand in altering the course of history. With that

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    Throughout the course of history there have been many technological advances that have made a tremendous impact on human culture and the way our society functions. Inventions like the automobile, television, and the internet have all contributed to improve the quality of living as we know it. One major contribution to media and our culture was the development and rise of sound recording. Since it’s inception sound recording has evolved and adapted to fit our ever growing need for media. Thanks to

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